New Teacher-Student Technique Speeds Up Machine Learning for Drug Discovery
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Researchers developed a new "yoked learning" technique to improve machine learning models by having one model teach another.
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The actively learning "teacher" model identifies important data that the "student" model then analyzes.
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This yoked deep learning (YoDeL) technique matched or outperformed active deep learning models in identifying molecular properties.
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YoDeL was much faster than active deep learning, taking minutes versus hours or days.
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The team has filed a patent and plans to continue improving YoDeL to help discover new drugs and drug delivery solutions.